Are you ready for some news that will make you feel old? Today Facebook, the social media giant that changed the world, turns 20 years old.
In those two decades Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has morphed from a nerdy frat boy into Silicon Valley’s billionaire bogeyman.
And, the product he created has undergone a no less bewildering transformation.
From the birth of the Newsfeed to the death of long-forgotten features, the Facebook we know has come a long way since
The house where 40 pairs of human ears were nailed up around the walls still stands up in the Gulf country, in a remote part of the outback most Australians have never seen.
The old homestead called Lawn Hill station is on a riverbend just south of Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria, in tribal territory occupied by the Waanyi people.
The house belonged to Frank Hann, a pastoralist and explorer later infamous for collecting the heads of Aboriginal people,
This year, the James Webb Space Telescope celebrated its first full year of operation, during which it returned a treasure trove of images. And it’s just getting started.
Since it first began sending pictures back home in July 2022 from its location 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth’s orbit, JWST has peered deeper in space and farther back in time than any previous telescope could manage (SN: 7/11/22). Hundreds of scientific papers have already been published based on JWST
Iconic Hollywood star Ryan O’Neal who was both a matinee idol and an award-winning actor has died at the age of 82.
His son Patrick shared the sad news on social media on Friday afternoon. ‘So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go,’ he began.
‘My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.’
O’Neal was last seen being aided
Images have emerged appearing to show Israeli forces preparing to flood the labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip with sea water.
Israel is said to have completed installing at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic metres of water per hour – meaning they could flood the 300-mile network of tunnels within weeks.
Their plan would be to drive out the terrorists from the tunnels
The allure of photography is its ability to transport you to different places.
It can even take you back in time, as is the case for some of the winning images in the 2023 Historic Photographer of the Year awards.
The contest – run by History Hit, the content platform founded by historian Dan Snow, and media network Little Dot Studios – calls on photographers to ‘explore and capture the very best historic sites that the world has to
Eastern Europe has so much to offer travellers – yet it’s often overlooked in favour of popular Western European destinations such as Italy, France and Spain.
Those who venture off the beaten path and explore this segment of Europe will be rewarded with chocolate-box architecture, eye-opening historic sites and breathtaking national parks.
Not to mention, Eastern Europe tends to be incredibly affordable for holidaymakers.
As Lonely Planet notes: ‘From soaring mountains to golden sands, Eastern Europe reveals a tapestry of
Israel today released harrowing images of tiny babies who were murdered and burned by Hamas terrorists amid their ruthless attacks this weekend that saw hundreds of Israeli civilians killed in their homes.
One appalling image shows the small body of a baby, who couldn’t be more than 12 months old, lying on a now bloodied white body bag that is too large for it. The little child’s baby grow dotted with flowers is now covered in blood after the rampaging
Her fans called her La Divina, the divine, and Maria Callas seemed to think so, too.
‘I have been touched by the hand of God’, said the singer hailed by her devotees as the greatest ever soprano.
A new biography, drawing on her previously unpublished letters, makes exactly the opposite claim, however: Callas might have been cursed for all the suffering and betrayal she endured in her glittering but turbulent life.
She was regularly drugged by her violent lover, Greek
The greatest puzzle in cosmology just got even more puzzling.
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the universe appears to be expanding significantly faster than it should be, researchers report in a study accepted in the Astrophysical Journal. The observation is in conflict with an esteemed theory, the standard model of cosmology, that describes how the universe has evolved since the first moments after the Big Bang.
The conflict comes down to calculations of the
